Is Anyone Actually Gonna Watch This???

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Yes they both done great for themselves. I just never understood anyone giving Mike a chance. A 58 year old man competing in boxing with a 27 year old is insane.

Nostalgia and the fact Jake Paul isn't very good, is what deluded people into giving him a chance.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Nostalgia and the fact Jake Paul isn't very good, is what deluded people into giving him a chance.

I honestly figured Jake would have easily KOed or at least TKOed him.

I done a lot of boxing when young(55 now) and have gone and sparred with the kids off and on since then. Once you hit that first of 2 big declines in life in your mid 40s you are done being able to fight with kids except for fun. Even with a ton of experience the speed difference is just too much to overcome in boxing in my experience.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I honestly figured Jake would have easily KOed or at least TKOed him.

I done a lot of boxing when young(55 now) and have gone and sparred with the kids off and on since then. Once you hit that first of 2 big declines in life in your mid 40s you are done being able to fight with kids except for fun. Even with a ton of experience the speed difference is just too much to overcome in boxing in my experience.

I think he could have. Looked like he probably carried him for the last half of the fight.

Looked like a poor mans version of the Larry Holmes / Muhammad Ali fight, where at a certain point Larry was practically begging the ref to stop the fight because he didn't want to hurt Ali, and he knew Ali wasn't going to willingly quit or go down easy, though in this case it was more Paul just taking his foot off the gas when he realized Tyson was just physically exhausted.

Holmes had a similar reaction when he fought Tex Cobb, but for different reasons.

[Exhibitman]

I don't think anyone gave him a chance, but I don't think anyone expected his best punch would be the slap at the weigh-in. For all Tyson did, they could have rented his wax dummy and propped it up in there instead.

Taylor-Serrano was a fight.

[stlcardsfan]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I think he could have. Looked like he probably carried him for the last half of the fight.

Looked like a poor mans version of the Larry Holmes / Muhammad Ali fight, where at a certain point Larry was practically begging the ref to stop the fight because he didn't want to hurt Ali, and he knew Ali wasn't going to willingly quit or go down easy, though in this case it was more Paul just taking his foot off the gas when he realized Tyson was just physically exhausted.

Holmes had a similar reaction when he fought Tex Cobb, but for different reasons.

Which prompted some of the best post fight quotes of all time by Cobb.

"I can do my sport no greater service." On being informed that commentator Howard Cosell had hung up his mike after being so appalled at the one-sidedness of the Holmes-Cobb fight

And...

Howard Cosell retired from boxing broadcasts after Tex Cobb's fight with Larry Holmes, citing the disgrace to boxing that the referee wouldn't stop it, after which Cobb later remarked that he'd "... go 15 rounds with Holmes again if it would get Cosell off the football broadcasts."